Malden High School

Walter Hawley Medding “Blondy”

Malden High School in Malden, Massachusetts, listed Walter Hawley Medding (“Blondy”) among 132 graduates in the class of 1929. The entry gives: Scientific course; came from Belmont School; activities listed: Alpha Delta Sigma and Basketball. Portrait and entry from the 1929 yearbook, page 43.

Class of 1929

132 in the class of 1929 · 1 more named Medding

Full name: Walter Hawley Medding
Known as: Blondy
School: Malden High School
Graduated: Class of 1929
Course: Scientific
Came from: Belmont School

Also searched as: Blondy Medding; Walt Medding; Walter Medding; Walter H. Medding.

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Clubs & teams 55
Classmates 131
Same schools 24

In context

132 people from the Malden High School class of 1929 appear on this site, and Medding puts Walter 79th among them. The entry is on page 43 of the scan; the portraits read for this site run from page 13 to page 62. The first name Walter runs through 11 classes of Malden High School (1924 to 1931), 17 people in all. “Basketball” appears in 9 entries from the Malden High School class of 1929, Walter's among them. Of the 72 plans printed for the class of 1929 that name a kind of next step, 37 (51%) are a college or university, where the neighbouring classes have 69% in 1928-B and 58% in 1930-A.

On the same scan page	Esther Mary McCarthy
Same club	Basketball: 8 other classmates
Same course	Scientific: 16 of 132 classmates with a course (12%)

What Walter did at school

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What the yearbook said

Walter is a dreamy blonde whose abstracted manner makes us wonder what it is he must be thinking of—Possibly his ushering at the Strand may have something to do with it.

The class of 1929

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Also came from Belmont School

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Source

Malden High School yearbook, 1929, page 43. View the original scan at the Internet Archive (item maldonianyearbo1929mald_0).

Published 1929, and therefore in the public domain in the United States. Scan courtesy of Malden Public Library / Boston Public Library via the Internet Archive.

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